WINDSOR — At 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sean Glenn and his Windsor teammates were cold. Why wouldn’t they have been?

Snow was coming down as the temperature hovered around freezing. At 3:30, when the Wizards playoff game against Broomfield ended, it was snowing the hardest it had been all day, but Glenn didn’t feel a thing.

“I’m warm, I’m fine,” the senior defensive end said. “I’m happy.”

Funny what a win in the playoffs will do for you.

Windsor huddled in the snow after holding off Broomfield for a 20-12 victory in the first round of the 4A playoffs and celebrated moving on in a game filled with playoff drama between the No. 8/9 seeds.

Often playoff games are turned by an unexpected star. That happened to an extent for Windsor. Jordan Porterfield is a star running back, and he did plenty of damage on the ground Saturday. He ran for 124 yards, including a 65-yard touchdown run on the first play of the third quarter. But he also had two fumbles that kept Broomfield in the game.

He was able to get redemption on his own in a surprising way. Porterfield very rarely plays defense, but he did in spots in the second half Saturday, and came up huge.

Broomfield was inside the Windsor 10, down eight in the fourth quarter. Quarterback Angelo Garcia fired to a receiver near the pylon, the ball bounced up and Porterfield grabbed it for a key interception.

“He was actually supposed to blitz on the play he got that pick,” Glenn said, unable to control his laughter. “Good thing he didn’t know what he was doing.”

On the next drive, with Broomfield still within a score, Porterfield recovered a fumble.

“He stepped up because he knows he made a couple of mistakes and he didn’t want to let his teammates down,” Windsor coach Chris Jones said. “He’s one of those guys that loves that family and came back for those guys.”

Windsor jumped out early, taking a 14-0 lead after the first quarter, but the Wizards knew that a quality program like Broomfield wouldn’t go quietly.

And they didn’t. Even after Porterfield’s touchdown on the first play of the third quarter, the Eagles punched right back, scoring on a 56-yard run by Ryan McCulley.

All game long the draw play to McCulley caused problems. He ended with 130 rush yards. The biggest difference in the game, though, was that three times Broomfield was inside the 10 and didn’t score.

Twice the Windsor defense forced turnovers on downs with Broomfield not wanting to kick a field goal in the blizzard conditions. The third was Porterfield’s pick.

Late in the game as Windsor started having fumble problems, Jones just kept the ball in the hands of old-reliable: senior quarterback Joe Sanger.

Sanger ended with 137 rush yards as the Wizards advanced to the second round to play No. 1 seed Pueblo West.

“Nobody wanted to let anybody down today,” Jones said. “It was all about ‘I’m going to make the play if somebody else doesn’t make the play.’ Everybody rose up today.”

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